Athletes Quotes · Page 8

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

— Mary Lou Retton

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

— Jimmie Johnson

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

— Haile Gebrselassie

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their…

— Dolph Lundgren

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

— Armstrong Williams

Personally, I love athletes on Twitter. I think it gives them an opportunity to engage and show some of their personality.

— Jemele Hill

“Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.”

— Fitzgerald Matt

My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get…

— Dutee Chand

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run…

— Howard Bach

I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of…

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

I think that's one of the best things about us being professional athletes, just being a role model for others, really embracing…

— Nikola Vucevic

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and…

— Giles Duley

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not…

— Frank Deford

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until…

— Arthur Lydiard

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

— Nancy Gibbs

We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition…

— Bill James

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can…

— Maurice Greene

I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this…

— Nelly

I haven't done any major filming with a major production company yet, but I've definitely done a lot of filming with a…

— Nick Goepper

To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes…

— Dianne Holum

[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them…

— David Haye

Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by…

— Amy Jo Martin

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my…

— Bill Simmons

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to…

— Landon Donovan

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

— Daley Thompson

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

— Gordie Howe

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

— Walter Payton

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

— Raul Lopez

Athletes have their career for 15 years and you have to make the most of it because once it's over, it's over.

— George Russell

They are always open to come to South Korea and play, because we never reject North Korean athletes.

— Park Ji-sung

We can do a lot of different things as athletes - we can speak, we can mentor, we can coach.

— Bethanie Mattek-Sands

After winning a medal, many athletes give up and go into oblivion, the reason being lack of encouragement.

— P. T. Usha

I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining…

— Kobe Bryant

We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

— David Duval

Some college athletes don't want to turn pro, they don't want to take the cut in pay.

— Nipsey Russell

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

— Nick Foles

An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.

— Abhinav Bindra

As female athletes, we're all strong. We all have gone through something in our life that has helped shape us to where…

— Breanna Stewart